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Re: Sunflowers

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   This sunflower bit has perked my interest.  Can anyone suggest a variety
and a spacing that might make them a living fence or hedge.  I am thinking
one of the large tall varieties.  They could attract more birds, I have
several robin families and many other specie nearby.  Besides I love
sunflower kernels.  Just hate separating them from the husks.  They make an
excellent natural laxative that us seniors frequently need.  At least they
do for me.  I can still gum them to death:>)

Jim allAn zone 5 New York State
Northeastern USA.
----- Original Message -----
From: Vasha Rosenblum <vashan@mindspring.com>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: Sunflowers


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> In spite of my requests NOT to plant sunflowers in the square foot beds at
> our school, the kids snuck those Russion Mammoth seeds into their squares
> anyway!  I thought sunflowers "belonged" in the 3 sisters garden, just
like
> in the book.  Well, I was wrong.  They looked great - sunny, cheerful, and
> enormous, and it was okay!  THey were sort of like sunflower flagpoles!
> THis year we got "Solar Baby" sunflowers from Parks and they seem to bloom
> when only about 1 foot tall.  Solar Baby may be the way to go if you want
> small scale sunflowers, but I bet those 6 footers will be great!
>
> Vasha
> 7.5
>
>
>
>
> At 05:46 PM 5/21/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> >
> >I got some Moonbright Sunflower seeds:
> >
> >"A pollenless variety. Moonbright is a lemon yellow sunflower with a
brown,
> >almost black, center reaching 8" across. Plants are 6 feet tall,
> >well-branching, can be pinched to produce one larger flower. They were
> >developed for the purpose of cutting as there is no trace of pollen to be
> >left
> >on the table. "
> >
> >I'm trying to figure out if I can put any in my square foot gardens. I
have
> >two beds, 4 foot by 10 foot each with a trellis at the north end of each.
> >Currently I have peas running up both trellises and will add beans and
> >maybe a watermelon when there is room. In the west bed, adjacent to the
> >trellis squares are 2 tomatoes alternating with blank squares in one bed,
> >and next to them are two other tomatoes checkerboarding. In the east bed
I
> >have tomato, broccoli (that clearly isn't going to do anything), tomato,
> >and kale (that also probably isn't going to do anything), adjacent to the
> >trellis, then nothing in the next areas.
> >
> >So the question is: Would I be sorry if I put a couple of sunflowers in
> >here? Would they to okay interspersed with those tomatoes in the west
bed?
> >In a row of their own in the east bed?
> >
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